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of Politics, Literature,
Vol. XE. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Eshund, Monday, February 18, £86i, New Series.---No, 7
‘ALL, 1860! FALL, i860! ‘ . sa i UST received from Boston and Malifax, at the Old Es- « tablished (Orwe!!, 1843,) Cheap Store, admitted to be CHILE AP. ER than the CHEAPEST Couatry Store on tae Island, and the | greatest variety iv it, froma
NEEDLE TO AN ANCHOR,
well selected Stock of all kiads of Goods, to snit rased cn the most alvantageous terms, in plain &gures—for the child as
a large and personal the House and Firin, and pure and which are priced at the /owest rate, a woll as the gust expecienced—from waich no alteratioa is made. Tie | motte is
* Quick Sales. Low Prices, and Small Profits”
The following are a portion of late Importation :-—Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, ia tlardware and Catiery; China, (lass and Hirthenware; Stati ry; Deugs; Perfumery and Dye Stats: Gena- joe and Patent Med e, the best and surest for man and beast; Paints, all colours; Oils, Varnishes and Brushes of all kinds; Pitch, far, Rezin, Oakam aad Roepe; Cut and Wrought Nails, Brads and Spikes; Brass, Cooper aad Zink Nils acd Tacks, for house, ship and boat; Cart and Gled Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips and Spurs; Sled Furs; Horse avd Bed Rugs; [1:1] and Room Paper, cheap as white-wash; Men 3, Women’s and Children’s Boots, Shoes and Kubbers; Upper aad Sole Leather; Garibaldi Pur, Cloth, Wool and Glazed Caps and Hats.
Metal Boilers, Pots, Bake Pans and Kettles, with extra lids, Mount- ing fur Wood and [roa Pioughs, extra side and sele plates; best Scotch and refined Fiat, Square, Roaad, Piouzh Pilate, Hoop ant Sheet lron; Blister, Cast, German and Spring Steel; Smiths’ Coals; Files and Rasps; Mill, Cireular, Pit, Cross Cat, Hand and Tenon Daws; German and E iglish Flour Cloth; Wire Web and Oats Screens; Pow ter. Shot, Caps, Flints, and Guns; Best and Strong TEA and Cos FE, — Sugar and Molasses; Rive, Barley, Raisins, Currants; Pilot and Navy Bread and Crackers.
Domestic Manufacture: Encouraso Island | Trades
The follewing Goods will be sold at Maker's prices :—Large and small Barn Door Hinges, with bolts and Nuts; Dog Irons, Fire Shovels, Po- kers; Horse shoes, Coulter and Harrow Pins; Island, Nova Seotia and American Axes, warranted; Ploughs and Harrows, Sleds, Box Carts, Trucks and Wheels, [ron and Wood Axles; Spinuing Wheels and Keels; | Bedsteads and Chairs; Paacl Doors to order; Window Sashes and | Frames, &e , &c. ;
Ageot for the ilon. Jas. MecLaren’s celebrated Cl th Mills, which are fast superceding the Pictou Cloth Mills, having vast increased im- provements added |.tely to his establishment. : }
Materials imported for making Ginger Cordial and Temperance Syrups, with directions for Tavern Keepers and others, at cost prices; warranted the best and safest substitute for Yankee white eye ever | discovered; no mistake in them.
Dowman’s rerowned Butter Powder produces extra Butter and | Cheese in winter nearly as quick as telegraph vperation; seeing is be- | lieving it, if you doubt its proof (sample free.) é Hs
Best Labrador Herring and Codfish; with countless other articles in stock, too troublesome for the printer. Parties wishing to save time, | trouble, money, or eats when scarce bad better call and see the Stuck which is now selling off quick at reduced prices, for ready pay, for which Oats will be taken as Cash; and discount alluwed ‘or money, to encourage ready pe yment trom this date. au :
Agent for the almost everlasting Yarmouth Cook and other Stoves, the best and cheapest ever imported. The last stuck of them all sold. |
WANTED—300 Cow and Ox Hides; the highes: prices paid for them and all kinds of Isiand produce. i
tr THE PARAER’S GUIDE, and Almanacs, gratis to cortemans |
i ta i ad fi i t a ihe en PATRICK STEPHENS. Orwell Cheap Store, January2}, ge tt
event riet great variety,
Ex “Gazelio” from Liverpool, and “Carrie M. Rich” rom Boston-
FYVIIE Subscribers have received their FALL STOCK GENERAL MERCUANDIZE, comprising a large a
well seleeted Stock of ESS MATERIALS DRESS MATERIALS, in French Marine, plan and striped Winceys, Gala Plaids, Coburgs, Alapacas. &e. MANTLES, MANTLE CLOTHS & SHAWLS, iu great variety. RIBBONS, Fiow: rs, Plumes. &c. EICAYD DRESSES, GLOVE®, Mosicry, Silks. Velvets, Linens Mas.ins, grey and white COTTONS, Prints, striped >birtings, W ARVs, Dens, trills, &e
Velvet Trimmings, >earfs,
A few magnilicent
on ' Licking, oat
AODRICOT DUP T ATIC GT Onmiara GENTLEMEN'S ULOLES, eo in Cassim re, lueskias, Piluts, Beavers, uitneys, Broad
4 luths, We.
ADT. Ee ARDWARE Table and Pocket Cutlery ; Edge Tools ; Saws, Files, Hinges, Loucks, S«rews, Sad llery, &&.
ApANT rea wen and Crashed SUGAR, Molasses Raisins,
TEA, Coffee, 3:
Currants, Candles, Suap, Spices and Dry Saltery. Also-—
80 bags Nails and Spikes
60 boxes best Smithwick Glass
150 kegs Paints—black, white, blue, red, yellow & |
yreen
6 casks Linseed and Pine Oil ‘ at |
4 do Spirits Turpentine and Burning Fluid
248 coils Hemp and Manilla Cordage
6,600 yds Hemp and Cotton Canvass
AND 26 éwt Sanderson's best cast, spring and shoeing, WHOLESALE and RETAIL PROVISION DEALERS, | foreion to the poiuts at issue. Great George Street, Charlottetown, P FE isiand. | =
Steel : 50 tons Iron — various sizes 3,000 bushels Salt 67 Urates and Casks NWARE $$, CHINA AND EARTHE , With ae Z of Piteh, Tar, Rosin, Oukam, Warring Choeks, Windlass Gear, Hawse Pipes; Bright and Nap- tha Varnis) ; Buckets, Brooms, Trunks, Buifalo Robes, é&e. ; ! Wholesale and Retail. W.W.LORD&Uo. | Charlottetown, November 26, 1860.
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PEISCATAQGUA | & S#Marine Insurauce Co.
OF MAINE. STOCOCE PEFARSAMENT. Authorized Capital, $500,000. Capital Subscribed and Secured, $253,445.76.
Hox. JOUN N. GOODWIN, Prest. OBED P. MILLER, Vice Prest.
SHIPLEY W. RICKER, Secretary. DIRECTORS.
Jiox. Joux N. Goopwirs, Onep P. Mivtee, Davip FammBasks, Abner Oakes, F. W. De Rocuemoyrt.
Saorptey W. Ricker, | Jous A. Parse, |
Fire Insurance on Dwellings, Faraiture, Warehouses, Public Buildings, ~~~
Miils, Manufactories, Stores, Merchandise, Ships in Port, or while |
building, and other property. Inland Insurance on Goods to all parts |
of the country. Marise Lusurange on Vessels, Vargo and Freight to all
parts of the World.
Portcizs IssULD AND FURTHER INFORMATION OBTAINED OF | J. S. CARVELL, Agent. |
Charlottetown, January 7, 1861. ly—ali papers. |
NOTICE,
4E CO-PARTNERSULP heretofore existing under the name of DUNCAN, MASON & Co., has terminated agrecably to tle articles of Co-partnership. The business of the late Firm will be settled by either of the Partners. Dated this 13th day of December, 1360,
JAMES DUNCAN,
JAMES D. MASON, Feb. 4. tf R. R. HODGSON.
SUMMERSIDE.
PYPUE subscribers having completed their FALL 1MPOR~
TATION 3, beg to so.icit the attention of purchasers to es
Ship Bread
BARQUE “GAZELLE.” |
FAVE Owners of the above Vessel beg to thank | . ; the Mercantile Public for the liberal acl
age reeeived daring the period she has been on the line between this Portand Liverpool ; and having |
| now heard of her safe arrival in Liverpool, after completing |
satisfactorily three round voyages since the 5th of April last, | they have much pleasure in referring to the following arrange- | ments for the season of 1861—trusting that the public will} recognise the advantages to be obtained by the opportunity of
importing three times in place of twiee only ,—and they would |
Oe a as | Hoetyy.
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SINNER NN
THE MYSTERY.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
LLL LN LOL
Thou art not dead—thou art not cone to dust, No lines of all thy loveliness shall fall
To ruthless rain, smote by Time, and thrust Into the solemn gulf that covers all.
also intimate that should any accident oceur to prevent this |
vessel from performing her voyages as advertised, another ship will be immediately put on tu prevent the possibility of a disippointment : Al, BARQUE “GAZELTE,”
{00 tons burthen, R. Cameron, Commander, will sail from LLVERPOOL for P. E. Island as follows :—
26th MARCH;
26th JUNE;
26th SEPTEMBER.
For Freight or Passage—(having superior accommodations),
please apply in Liverpool to Messrs. Dayip Cannon, Sons & |
Co., or to the owners, W. W. LORD & CO. Charlottetown, January 14, 1861. dw
a . i > Fresh Fruit, Sugar, &¢. K* ** HELENA,” from New York— 40 quarter Fresh 14 halves RAISINS, 16 boxes very cheap, 18 barrels Crushed SUGAR, Kegs CURRANTS, 8d. per Drums FIGS, 2s and 3s per dram. iN WARENOUSE——— Hogsheads Porto Rico SUGAR Puncheons MOLASSES Chests and half-chests warranted TEAS Boxes prime family SOAP Dozens Corn BROOMS Casks Burning FLUID 20 English Dairy CHEGSE Kegs Baking SODA Boxes Coffee and Ginger 50 dozen BUCKETS. : Wholesale and Rotail, at low Prices. . ce a\.
Glasgow House, December 31, 1860.
J. W. BRADLEY & Cu,
— BLOCK, corner of Great Georce and Kent } Srreers, Charlottetown, at very low prices for CASH or |
PRODUCE, offer for Sale—
Coguae BRANDY—direct from Eogland—5 years in |
Bond in London, Domeeque & Co,’s finest SUERRY, 5 years in Bond, CLARET, CHUAMPAGNE, London PORTER—quarts and pints, Bass’s Pale India ALE, do Boswell's Quebec ALE—barrel and bottled, MOLASSES, RAISINS, CURRANTS, COFFES, SALERATUCS, ELACKLEAD, KEROSENE LAMPS,
PAILS, TUBS, ; : A large assortment of STOVES of the latest American
pacte 8,
150 Kegs of assorted NATLS and SPLKES,
Broad & Co.'s celebrated New Brun-wick AXES,
A large assortment of FILES, from the eeclebrated Louse of Char!-s ammel & Co. Sheffield, England
CROCKERY,
Mili and other SAWS of all descriptions,
TRON and StTHEL of all kinds,
Foundry Castings, Mill Gearing, &e.,
Steam ENGINES, from £100 up irds; BOILERS to mate’,
OlL—used for Threshing Machines and other machi- nery, Ose por gallon,
PAINTS,
UARDWARE—large assur ment,
GLASS,
TULBACCO,
GUN 3-—large assortment,
CORDAGE?.
Always on hand articles too namerous to mention. Charlottetown, December 3, 1860.
- §WABEY & ROBERTS, —
Commission Merchants,
ALWAYS ON HAND, AT LOWEST MARKET RATES— FLOUR TEAS ‘orn Meal Coffees White Sugar
Dark Rotterdam GIN
Crackers Brown Sugar Cream of the Valley Rice Molasses Jamaica
Pork Mustard Demerara Rum | Bacon Pepper Seotch Whiskey llams Spices Mit Whiskey
Bath Chaps Pickles Port Wine
Cheese Sauces Sherry
Tobacco Salt Marsala
Manilla Rope Vinegar Claret
Oakum Soaps Champagne
Cobza Oil Candles Bottled Ale & Porter Albertine Sperm Candles Maraschino | Vaints Starch Noyau
Paint Oils Saleratus Geneva
«© Old Tom”
Milk Punch
English Soda Water, and numerous other smaller articles, all London Lnportation, and all warranted.
Glass Indigo Bide
ta Liberal advances made against CONSIGNMENTS at all times, on receipt of Goods. May 29, 1860.
i csieiae ON CONSIGNMENT. 1 UHHDS, EARTHENWARE, 6 casks GLASSW ARE,
'arsorted expressly for Country dealers, for sale at cost and Church.”
charges. —— ALso—— 2 quarter casks superior SUERRY WINE, at 20s. per gallon. PATRICK WALKER. Ch. Town, Jan’y 14, 1861. Isl & RW. 4w.
~~" MEDICAL NOTICE. ELZEAR D. GAUYVREAT, ™. D.
McGut Cotitece, Monrrear.
Licentiate of the Colloge of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada, Office at Mr. W. MeKay’s, Dorchester Street, Ch. Town. May be consulted daily between the hours of 9. a.m. and 4 p.m October 2, 1360.
J. & T. HORRIS,
their large ani varied assortment of WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Res gOS GROCERIES \Tea, Sugar, Molasses, Flour, Leather, &c., APPLI'S cama. ns Import direct from Liverpool, New York and Boston. TEA TOBACCO Charlottetown, Dec. 3, 1860. 3m. Rot be LIQUORS ALEXANDER McKINNON,
Pale and Dark Brandy Port and Sherry Wine
Old Jamaica Spirits Old Irish Whiskey Holland GIN Old Scotch do. Old Tom
Crockery and Glassware Kerosene Oil Lamps and Glasses.
‘ Bt... CONSTANTLY ON Hann
ydney and Pictou COAL, large and smal
Roach and Slack LIME. ;
BOARDS and LUMBER
Labrador HERRING
SALT. Parlor, Church, Hall and Cooking STOVES in great variety _ which will be sold cheap for cash, or approved credit of thre: mouths. GREEN & HUNT.
Summersid., December 17, 1860.
AUCTIONEER GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT,
QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND. Ey Orrice in the same Building as A. H. Yates, Esq.
NOTICE. ; musk Subscriber begs to acquaiut all persons indebted to him in his late business that unless their anyon’ ee i ed for the same without further notice. are paid at once, they will be sued for the . — hay
17,
Thou canst not wholly perish, though the sod Sink with its violets closer to thy breast : Though by the feet of generations trod, The headstone crumbles from thy place of rest.
The marvel of thy beauty cannot dic ;
The sweetness of thy presence shall not fade ; Earth gave not all the glory of thine eye—
Death may not keep what death has never made.
It was of thine, that forehead strange and cold, Nor those dumb lips they hid beneath the snow ;
Thy heart would throb beneath that passive fold, Thy hands for me that stony clasp foreg».
Bat thou hast gone —gone from the dreary Iand— Gone from the storins let loose on every hill,
| Lured by the sweet persuasions of a hand
Which leads thee somewhere in the distance stil].
Where’er thou art, I know tou wearest yet The same bewitching beauty, sanctified
By calmer joy, and touched with soft regret For bim who seeks, but cannot reach thy side.
| I keep for thee the living love of old,
| And seek thy place in Nature as a child, Whose hand is parted from its playmate’s hold, W anders and eries alung a lonesome wild. |
When in the watches ef my heart I hear The messages of purer light, and know The footsteps of thy spirit hngering near,
The darkness hides the way that I should go.
Canst thou not bid the empty realms restore
} That form, the symbol of thy heavenly part ? } Or on the ficlds of barren silence pour
That yuice, the perfect mu-ic of my heart?
Ch, ones, once bending on these widow’d lips, Take back the tender warmth of life from me, Or let thy kisses cloud wi h swilt eclipse The l.git of mine, and give me death with thee !
P ae | 7 2s gees Correspondence, THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPE.
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To tis Enrrox or tue Istanprr. | Sin,-- However pleasing it might be to you for me to take | your alvice, and rest sati-fied with what I have said regard- ing the temporal power of the Pope, | new return to the subject according to-my premise, ant | purpose to do so, | God-willing, for several weeks, as_it is impossib'e to dis :uss ‘in one or two letters the ®urious poluts ot is-u2 between os. Although IT do not intend to follow you in a!l your wander-
ling comments on my last letter, nevertheless L may remark
thit, however strenuously you tay deny the charge of having sneered at the dedicf uf Uatiulics, yet, in my huable opinion, doue so. [ am not with you on the subject, Lut L will leave the
( public to judge of the matrer [rom yeur own expressions, |
you have, un utentionally, } erhay ‘
i soing to quur.el
may add that itis the de/zef ot ull Catholics. xs well as of * the
that whoti the Llead of the
lioly Pather aud his*Cardin sly, Chur cXcOMulUnication agains
;Churea has fu minated an
legious rebber, or iilibaster, Wactuer he be a Prince ihe said robber is ‘* eff clually’” excouimunicated
ot we Beit “win de mie nt af nratnane 3 “an fi 1 not a little surprised at the profound iguoranee of the sub-
“If Mr. McDonald believes in the right aud power of the * august head’ of his {Church to excommunicate Pyine-s, then we tell him he has juno right to be considered a good or loyal subject of Her | Majesty the Queen.” You appear to regard the right to excommunicite and the “ deposiug power” one aud the same | thing. In this, however, you are quite mistaken, and hence jali which you have said on this supposition goes for nothing. i
ject which you exhibit when you say:
Lf trust, Sir, that if you continue tu discuss the matter you
will do so in a fair manner, as a gentleman and a scholar,
without avy quibviing, and without introduciog matter It is also to be hoped tbat you will not have recourse to the low artifice of attributing to Catholics doctrines and principles which <4ey do not hold.
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BRANDY, Pale and | If yeu do, you will leave yourself open to the charge of ig-
noranee or mulice. I cau searcely acquit you, Sir, of a very |disingenuous aitempt to arouse prejudices by your remarks \about the supposed deposition of Her Majesty, the Queen, jand the authority of « ‘ foreign power.” The Pope em- |ploys ecclesiastical censures only against those who are in /communiou with the Holy See. Her Mujesty the Queen is 'a Protestant, and bas always been such ; and I presume 'you, as well as all Protestants, will say that she is conse-
| quently not in the communion of the Roman Catholic Church. |tiow absurd would it not then be to imagine for a moment that the Pope would be so silly as to think of depriving Her must graciuus Maje-ty, by exc mmunication, of that which, '{ dare say, all Protestants are giad that she never was iu | possession—that is, of communion wiih the See of Rome. in the case even of a Catholie Prince excommunication does ‘not imply deposition; aud your iusinuations regarding the jalleged pretensions of the Pope to depose the Queen of | Kugland are merely gratuitous, and undeserving of refutation. | On some future occasion | may say something about the | deposing power.” 4 will now say a few words about the authority of a ' foreign power.” You well know that phere is a vast
difference between the spiritual power of the Pope and his |
|temporal power: the former extends to the farthest limits ‘of the globe, the latter is confined to the “ States of the The bounds of the spiritual authority were de- fived when the Saviour said: “ Go ye into the whole world ‘aud preach the Gospel to every creature,” \then to cali the spiritual power a “ foreign power.” You know, too, I presume, that Catholics have becu unjustly up- braided for being disloyal, because they are subject to the Pope in spiritual things, and it looks very suspicious that you have made mentiou cf a “ foreign power” fur motives not the most honorable, If you wish io stir up old preju- dices, and to excite ediuin against St. Dunstan’s College by unfair means, you may depend that such attempts will not redound much to your credit. 1 doubt not bat the public generally will regard in their preper light such mean at- tempts. For my own part 1 wil. act according to the sugges- tions of the good old adage—* tiouesty is the best policy.” 1 cannot imagine for what purpose you introduced into your comments several extracts frow an allocution lately delivered by the Pope. However, should you ever again quote from an allocution, 1 wonld advise you, if you have
his Hoiiness words which he never uttered. Give eitber the original text, or otherwise a fuithful translation thereof. As you have given a ** perverse” version of what the Pope said—particularly in these words:—* Behold the end of these translations of the sacred books, everywhere scattered to corrupt the faith,” I wiil give a more correct translation ot some of the said extracts ;—
“In fact we have to deplore new evils, some from the supporters of the perverse doctrines which, sprung from the
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ithe fury of the pagans which, in the lands of the Kast, bas
/burst forth with su-h vehemence as to cause the massacre |
and extermination of the faithful.”
| Before I proceed to treat of the Temporal Power of the | | Pope 1 may be allowed to say a few words about the Pope |
| himself—your ‘impotent old man.” The Pope is the su-
| preme visible Head cf the Church established by Christ, the | cour
|suceessor of St. Peter, the Chief of Catholie Christendom, ithe centre of Christian fuith and unity, | Sonation of a power which is not of this world. | Very pature of this power that it rebukes whatever evil there (is ta man, whether that evil be directed against God or
jagainst the order and well being of society—and for this'|
| reason, and for this reason alone, has the world always hated |the Pope.” And the more wicked the world becomes, the |more rebellious itis against the eternal principles of truth |aud justice, and against the laws of society and ageinst God the more it necessarily hates the Pope. “ Wonder not if jthe world hate you,” said our Lord; * if you were of the world the world would love its own, but you are not of the | world, as L am not of the world.” The Pope is the centre of upiiy and the pillar of the Church, and of all social order, ‘and this is the reason why he has always been assaulted by ‘the enemies of Christianity ; this is the reason why he has (deen hated and attacked by anarchists and red republicans, tyraats and yssassins, demagogues and rebels, Voltaires and Garibaldians, Cayours and Mazzinis, atheists and infidels ; in _a word by all the revolutiouary vagabonds who so frequently idistarb the peace of Exrope, by all the enemies of religion cand society, ef God and man. That “ impotent old man” is the adamantine base of a divine edifice, which the power of darkness can never shake—the corner-stone on which the ‘city of God here below reposes. He is prince of priests, lather cf fathers, heir of Aposties; a greater patriarch than Abraham, as St. Bernard has said—greater than Melehise- deck in priesthood, than Moses in authority, than Samuel in jurisdiction ; in a word, Peter in power, Christ by unction, pastor of pastors, guide of guides, the cardinal joint of all the churches, the keystone of the Catholic arch, the impregnable ‘citade! of the communion of the children of God.”
As yon, Sir, have thought proper to interfere with Ca- tholic dedézef, L might claim the right of being allowed to prove irom the holy Scriptures, from the Fathers of the Church, and from the whole of tradition, that the Papacy is a divine institution, and not as you assert a work of “ human organ zation” ; but as it is not my intention to enter into a |
| lengthy religious controversy with you on the subject, I will merely state that Christ established the Papacy when he said | io St. Peter, who was also an “ impotent old man,” “ Thou art Peter, and upen this rock I will build my Chureh, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” ** Feed my | lambs”—** feed my sheep.” ‘That the Papacy is a wonder- ful institution, its very enemies are obliged to admit. Many | of the most learned Protestan's aduit that it is as old as Christianity itself; that it “ joins together the two great |ages of civilization” ; “ that the seeds of Popery were sown | even in the Apostolic times.” (Bp. Newton’s Dissert. on the
_reason of this divine arrangement.
he Bishop raised to the highest Apostolic dignity—St.
Cyp. 3. 12.
The Pather of Fathers-—Couneil of Chaleed. Sess. 3.
The Prince of Bishops—Idem.
‘The Prince of Priests—I[dem, Sess. 16.
The Sovereiga Pontiff—Idem,
The Prefect of the House of God and the Guardian of the
Vineyard of the Lord—Council of Carthage. The Vicar of J. C. the Confirmer of the faith of Christians — St. Jerome.
The Pastor of the Fold of J. C.—St. Bernard.
The Key-bearer of the House of God—Id,
Let ny readers compare these glorious titles with your appeliation—* an impotent old mav”—and they can easily form their opinions regarding your respect for the Pope.
The spiritual power instituted by Christ, and vested in the Pope, required an ubode, a residence, a seat of some kind here below. The Church—as a distinguished member of the rench Academy has observed—is not a vague speculative idea ; it was intended to be a living fact, a real society, hav- ing consequently at his head a real power, which speaks and governs, and therefore subject to the conditions of other hu- man affairs, the conditions of time and space. Where is to be this abode? The Place chosen by Peter, or rather by Him who guided him unknown to binself, was the seat of that Roman Severeignty whica the whole world obeyed ; the eentre of all the lights of ancient civilization, and of the Imposing organization of the imperial power; doubtless Peter's choice, if it was his, was a singularly bold one.
The question at the present moment ‘s, what is to be in the place of its abcde, the external condition of this spiritual power? What is to be the manner of its visible, terrestrial existence ? What means, what instruments will God employ to guide itto its end, to enable it to accomplis’ its work, to Sustain and preserve it in life and activity during the whole | course of time # The answer is as simple as it is indisputable : God sustains, preserves, and perpetuates it, accooding to His
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“ ft is for this reason | |that perverted interpretations of tae Sacred Books are uni-| preraally disseminated, that a deluge of the foulest books is | }poured forth to corrupt the morals of youth—that an un-| | bridted Heentiovsness of living is introduced,” &e. | be infamous pamphlet to which the Holy Father alluded |
was published in Paris, and was most probably written at the suggestion of our ** august ally,” whose peculiar predilections | ‘or ** peace” have aroused the whole British nation to extra- | jordinary and most lau lable efforts to prepare itself against | }the dangers which it bad just reasons to fear from this im-| perial despot. This pamphlet recommended the “ idea” of a schism: in France, an event of which there never was less fear than at present. You say that the author of this pamn- |phiet is a Catholic,—if this is true he is such a Catholic as Judas was an Apostle.
[ never accused you, Sir, of believing “ the views and opinions of the infallible Church of 1860,” and if I were to form an opinion from the expressions in yesterday's islander, { would certainly be inclined to say that Jelief of any kind is Very little burthen to you. What you say regarding the “martyrsin pagan days,” aad the sufferings of * M. Fabius, ithe « Pope’ in the days of Pagan Rome,” and of his “ associ- ates,” is somewhat extraordinary. I may have something to say on this some other time. | I do not believe that the Examiner is “ under the con- |trol of the Catholiz Church.” It is true that the Edior | thereof is a Catholic, and that a considerob e number of his jsubseribers are also Catholics; yet I do not think that the | Examiner is at all fettered by Catholic “ control.”
He is the “ imper- | auiform mode of action, by human means, co-operating with It is in the his powerful and supernatural assistance ; the idea, the work,
are from aeaven ; the instruments are, in part, of the earth : Such is the secret of the divine economy,
This is, moreover, God’s uniform mode of action. It may be unhesitatingly laid down as a principle, that miracles not being the ordinary rule of the divine Government, the ordi- hary, regular, normal means employed by God to establish the spiritual power in the world, to maintain it firm and re- /Spected, to prepare for it a due influence, and to render its action free and fruitful, will not be a continual derogation (from the laws which regu'ate the moral world, but visible application of those laws, joined to the invisible support of Lis omnipotence. The analogy of the most remarkable of God's works, together with universal history, attest the truth (of this principle God has wrought two works of primary | Importance in this world; the Creation and the Redemption. [le wrought both himself by the direct intervention of Lis |Sovereiga power; but to perpetuate them he makes use of his creatures, ‘I'hus he perpetuates the Creation by the in- stitution of families, by the lawful and sacred union of man (and woman, So also by an organized and permanent insti- tution, the Christian priesthood and its supreme chief, who 1s the guardian, the doctor, and minister of trath, of morality, and of the Catholie worship, the teaching, the sacrifice, and (the benefits of redemption are continued. Bat God has clothed men, not angels, with this priesthood and this power ; (the external means which He employs in this divine work jare human, simple, Vulgar in appearance; natural means, and not miracles,
; If God governed the wor!d, even in the spiritual order (SY constant and palpable miracles, He would destroy, ia |sume degree, for us the merit, and for Himself the homage of our liberty. The mora! world would be subjected to an impulsive force which would savour of constraint, and would resemble too closely the blind movements of the material world, God would not have it so, aud if we may dare to Lt seems even easy to penetrate the ) In fact, if God's action mauilested itself only in a continual derogation from his own laws, there would exist uo longer the beautiful calm- ness of order, the peace, according to St. Augustine of the works of God and of the world, There would be, as St. Ambrose says, more miracles, but also less mercy. It may even be asserted, in the case we are considering, that a per- petual miracle would not reveal a greater power; for, on the one hand, in the history of the Church, the miracle of the divine assistance, though its operations be hidden, is
say it, He was right,
Pets ta sein ra “heveriheless to be discovered by an attentive eye; and, on
ee nee r 24 oo vroene am : B). £8C | the other, the means employed by God are so feeble, so vul- spiritual power with waich the Pope is invested exercises its | gar, so contemptible to human wisdom that the divine power authority over some two hundred millions of the human race. | receives from the very weakuess of the means it uses the |scattered over the eutire globe; and the immense moral glory of a perpetual miracle. Thus God employs virtue
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autkority attached to this power has never been equalled | throughout the universe. Ié would not be a difficult matter to shew, fiom the greatest enemies of the Catholic Church, | that the extraordinary authority of the Papacy bas conferred | the greatest blessings on the human race, and has produced jresults the most beneficial to the cause of Christian civiliz- | -aton. Lather hitself has penned the following remarkable | words: “I give thanks to Jesus Chvist, because he has, by a great miracle, preserved upon the earth ove only Church —so as that she has never goue astray from the true faith ‘by any decree.” (Cited in the History of the Variations, ftom, i, No, 21. &¢.). “The Church,” says Melanethon, ‘mast have guides to maintain order, to have an eye over those who are called to the ecclestiastical ministry, and over the teaching“of priests, and 10 judge in ecclesiastical cases ; so that if there were not such bishops, it would be necessary to make them, The monarcby of the Pope would contribute much to preserve among different nations agreement in docirine.”( Bossuet, Hist. of the Var. tom. vy. sec. 24 )
** God,” says Calvin, “ has placed the throne of his re- | ligion in the centre of the world, and has there established | oue Poutiff, towards whom all are obliged to turn their eyes, in order to maintain themselves more strongly in unity.” (Calv. Inst. vi. see. i 1.)
The learned Grotius candidly declares—“ that, without ‘the primacy of the Pope, there would no longer be any means of putting an eud to disputes, and of determining | points of faith.” (Grotins Votum pro pace Eccles, Art. vil. | Oper. tom. iv. Bale, Lisl. p. 658.)
Casaubon bas acknowledged: +‘ that in the eyes of every man, well informed in rezard to ecclesiastical history, the Pope was the instrament God made use of to preserve the deposit of faith in all its integrity during so mauy aes.” | (Casaub. Exere. xv. in Annal. bar.)
Puflendor!, who will certainly not be accused of coldness when attacking Catholicism, cou!d vot help paying his tri- | ‘bate also to the truth, when in a confession, tor which a!) Catholics ought to thank him, he says :—* Tue suppressiou ‘of the authority of the Pope has sowed endless germs of dis- | jcord in the world, as there is no longer any sovereign |
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ont. Homan.) | The Pope who has, for upwards of eighteen centuries, oc- cupied so importaut a position in the world is eptitied to
“impotent old man,” and we fiad, by reading history, that he bas been respected in all ages not only by the learned, the wise aud the virtuous, but evea by the uubelieving and the uscivilized,
| The following are some of the titles which have been be- stowed on the Pope :—
| The Most Holy Bishop of the Catholic Church—Council of Soissons of 8UU Bishops, | The Most Holy and Most Happy Patriarch—Idem.
principles of the disastrous Reformation, have acquired al-| ‘The Most Happy Lord—St. Aug., Hpist. 95.
most the force of public law, some from the perversity of im-| The Universai Patriazch—St, Leo, Ep. 62.
pious men, who prociaim themselves the sons of the Church,' The Chief of the Cuyroa of the world ~Imoc. ad P. P. and whom we must call the sons of darkness, and others from Cog. Mileo.
aud genius in the service of His Ohurch ; but learning grows
/vain, geuius errs, virtue often falters; still the Church re-
mains.
Tous, too, the Church was established by a miracle of blood wnich lasted three hundred years. Reversing the order of all human institutions, it pleased God she should enter on her royalty by martyrdom. For tkree centuries suspended between heaven and earth, without human support, Jesting ou nothing in this world, crowned with the double diadem of apostleship aud sacrifice, the Roman Church sent all her first pontiffs to the confession of blood, and mot one of them refused this testimony to his minstry and his see.
Bat when by this long and terrible experience, God had
shown the world that bis Chureb neither feared nor depeud- ed upon men, He changed hig plan, and allowed the Roman Church to acquire a human government and sovereignty, as a sort of temporal security and external protection against the agitations of the world. Atier permitting, for three centuries, that thirty three popes should have no dwelling but the catacombs, no throne but the scaffold, be at length chose that the chief of his Church, the Pastor of pastors, ibe Prioce of alll the bishops of the Catholic world, should have a house at Rome, in the ceutre of Europe, to shelter bis epiritual crowa, au independent altar at St. Peter’s whereon to offir the eterna! sacrifice, and a seat at the Vatican to proclaim the oracles of truth. He chose that the spiritual sovereigaty, which rules so many millious of Christians, and reigas by faith over so many consciences, should have a temporal
‘power, humble enough not to give umbrage to the great powers of the world, and yet sufficient to secure the inde- _pendence necessary for the Supreme Judge in spiritual thiags
vf s0 many human beings. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your very humble servant, A. McDONALD. St. Danstan’s College, Feb. 2nd, 1861.
For tue Exanryer. In my first letter (in reference to Mr. Haviland’s evidence
authority to terminate the disputes which arise on all sides, | before the Land Commission), I gave a piain statement of my ‘we have secn the Protestants split amoung themselves and | @gency im the order and time aay notable act took place, to tear their bowels with their owa lauds.” (Pull, de Monarch. | |
show that the reported evidence wag not true; and as the | question about buiiding a vessel was seuled two years before 4 was turned out of office, Mr. Haviland’s object was only to ‘screen himself by attaching blame to me. It is a common saying, that although a man may forgive the person who has
any regard for your reputation, not to put in the mouth of somewhat little more respect thau to be suecered at as an! injured him, the person who commits an intentional injury will
‘never forgive the person he has injured, and 1 have found that | saying lo be true. . Mr. Haviland intended that the Land Commissioners and the | public should believe that I wae turned out of office for buiiding a vessel, and charging the proprietor with the loss. [ adwit that was Waller’s argument im his report to the proprietor in /1826—that f had no Lecat authority to build a vessel. But }as Mr. Hutchinson edantted that he gave permission, Lord ‘James was perfectiy sat sfied with the legality, and well pieared } to find that | had built a mill at my own expense for the im- : provement of the estate, and made a considerable remittance vy the vessel, Waller seeing how matters were going, thrust in a word, ** that his lentes was not going by the report he ihad signed,"’ but was quickly silenced by ** What is that to
jyou?”” fran Lord James, Waller had secn me before the in-
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